Even a paid license will show Deadline date on this menu. It will check the license validity every month, regardless if your license is trial or paid in your account. Note: It is important to understand that from RouterOS perspective all licenses are equal, trial or not.

Type /system license print to verify that you now have a p1 license. If all is fine, it will show 'status: done'. Also available are p10 (10Gbit) and p-unlimited (More than 10Gbit per interface).Īfter entering the above command, RouterOS will show the status as it fetches the license. P1 gives you 1Gbit per interface and should be enough for most people.

You must provide your account login here, and choose a license level to try. system license> renew account=loginname password=pass level=p1 To do that, start with a 30 day trial with this command: If you wish to run a faster system, you need to obtain a license. If this is of no importance, you may use it free of charge. The system has been booted in unlicensed mode, meaning it is limited to 1Mbit per interface. You can now re-login with the new credentials This will rename your admin user, set a password, disable all services except SSH and set a custom port. Then you can proceed to SSH into your system and set the most basic security settings, for example: You will have to wait some 20 seconds until the device obtains a DHCP address, then you can ssh from your PC to the RouterOS machine, using the public IP/DNS name that Linode shows in the Remote access section. Caution! The public device will immediately be attacked by bots, guessing your password, since this is an unsecured public system. To boot RouterOS in the main dashboard, click the Boot button to start your RouterOS CHR.

In the Linode main Dashboard, create a new configuration profile, select the following:.

In Linode web dashboard click 'Shutdown' to turn off the Linode and exit the Recovery mode.

Issue the following (as a root) unzip chr-6.44.3.img.zip | dd if=chr-6.44.3.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M iflag=fullblock.

To make sure you write to the correct disk, type fdisk -l and find the disk that corresponds to the size you selected in step 2.

Download the newest CHR raw disk image: wget, the latest version is available from the download page.

In the remote access section, click 'Lish via Browser', which should open a popup window with direct access to the Linode console.

Make sure your newly created disk is selected to show up in Rescue mode

In the Linode 'Rescue' tab, boot in Rescue mode.

Add new disk of any size above 128MB (type RAW).

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